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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-12
[ copyrighted, 1871
THE WINTER IN DAKOTA.
Truthful James Relates His Experience
in the Billiards..

Truthful James Relates His Experience
in the Billiards.
"Well, I'm glad to get back, want you to
understand" observed man who had spent
the winter in Dakota to one who had re-
mained at home.
"Why?"
"The winter! Such cold weather I never
heard Off
"Nearly frozen, were you?"
"Could scarcely keep warm at all. Why,
to get at it, when we needed it for medical
use, was by breaking the bottles"
"You don't say"
"It's factl And then we had to saw it
up in little cubes, something like caramels,
and warm it before the fire to make it even
fit to chew. One fellow who put chunk
into his mouth leetle too soon froze his
tongue and loosened his teeth so that they
all dropped out"
"That was severe"
"It is fact, sir, know some people from
Dakota exaggerate a little in telling about
the weather, but scorn to do that. The
facts themselves are stranger than any fic-
ton could be-"
ut seems so."
"Yes, sir. We were afraid to go out into
the woods for fuel, because the trees were
exploding continually"
"What!" ssz-2
''The trees were exploding, sir. Froze so
rapidly that the trunks expanded unequally,
till they Just burst, and chunks of wood of
miscellaneous sizes were flying around 'as
thick as cannon balls at the battle of Gettys-
l,,~z - ~. To-
by's dog and went clean through him. The
poor brute jumped into the air when the
timber struck him and there the carcass
stayed, right in the atmosphere. The air
was so thick with frigidity that the dog
couldn't fall to the ground. He stayed right
there, about as high as your nose, until a
thaw came"
"Reallyv'
"You bet! tell you, there was fun, too,
when the first thaw came along"
'Glal to feel it, suppose"
"Not that exactly, but the air was full of
all sorts of voices, which seemed kind O.
familiar, but awful strange. seein' as some
of the boys that the voices belonged to had
left the camp, and some had even left the
world"
"How was that?' ,.s.ssss
''Well, you see It was 30 cold all winter
that whenever anybody said anything the
words just froze right there. They couldn't
penetrate the CONCEALED air more'n foot or
two. This continued several months, the air
confiscating all remarks fired into it. Then
when the thaw came they all melted out at
once, and space seemed full of questions, and
answers, and remarks, and cross-words, and
Jokes. Inever witnessed the like"
Sand yet you are glad to get back?"
eyes, indeed! was afraid to stay and see
any more of the wonders of the country, for
fear people wouldn't believe me when came
home. So long,
Goodbye" w. H. s.
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The Bowery is literally crowded with beer
saloons and gin mills. They stand side by
side in rowsS In order to get their share of
trade they have to offer especial inducement.
One will be fitted like palace, the next will
have female walters. the next will employ
vocalists to sing to the customers, and just
now two are advertising "a large milk punch
and sandwich for ten cents"
The lodging-houses form a very peculiar
feature among the sights on the Bowery.
There are fifty or sixty of these on or close
to this strange avenue and they rent beds in
little wooden closets at from twenty-five cents
down to ten cents night. Undoubtedly
there are many honest young men in these
human honeycombs every night, youths out
of work or newly arrived and seeking work,
but under the law they are classed as va.
grants and they give the police great deal
to do. You can imagine the influence Of
these places when you know that they rent
beds to 900, 900 dodgers in the course of year
and that many of these dodgers are living
in idleness and crime. They used to be con-
sidered by the police as limited to the meaner
kinds Of crime, such as snatching pennies
from the hands Of children, robbing drunken
men, begging, selling fraudulent jewelfy,
stealing from the fronts of stores and 20 on,
but within . few days it han been discovered
that ut least one organised band Of burglars
Wa comPosed Of these lodgsn end : msm-
her of that hand y supposed "a b ths ~,
,Dosete esaN(E Vhoa aIA0t down ~ poRc1aek.
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SALON DAY.
TIMES IN T1xu -
WORLD OF PARIS.
A Processlon of Pictures ThrougA -
rious Mob-wild Scenes of 0iAdy oeovo
Among the Students-C Carrying . I'M
vorits Model Through the strsets.
rcopvrsoAssd. iss7.l

The last day on which pictures can -
sent to the Paris Salon is March 10, 81
that is great day in the art world of'
Paris. A Baltimore lady who Is study
ing her art in the studio of q famOue
artist has written to her father in tha4
city the following description Of TIE
scene:
"Not knowing what to do after the
pictures got of, and not caring much,
three of us from the studio got cab and
started for the Exposition building, and
there we saw and heard things, that for
one shall never forget. We drove to tn
entrance to the left of the Champs
Elysees, and told our coachman to station
us 80 that we could see all the pictures q
they entered the salon. The whole boulos:
ward was crowded with mass of whoop-|
ing and shouting students, painters and
models. Policemen were trying to keep.
the obstreperous crowd back from tn
street, where cart after cart drove up
with pictures framed and unframed, wet
and dry; you remember most all the
pictures are sent in this day, March 10.
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coachmen stood up, while
the porters in their white
linen shirts, which reached to their
knees, who were running in and out with
pictures, stopped in their work to show
their appreciation Of modern French art.
"Just then cab drove up Ia cab made
for two persons and child, and one man
descended in an awkward manner, as
though he was being assisted from within.
Then woman's head was thrust out
straight, the rest of her body in hori-
men, now easily extricated, making Eve
in all. When the girl got settled on her
feet she appeared to be q very we'll
dressed girl of twenty to twenty-one,
lady-likc looking, with a very high scar
let feather in her hat in front. Her exit
from the cab right in the centre Of the
boulevard naturally attracted great atteu-
tion, but the height of improbability was
reached when the men locked arms over
shoulders, as the boys do at home, and
marched down the centre Of the boule-
ward with the girl on top, and she laugh
ing. We heard she was model, and her
pictures Aad been sent to the salon By;
her four separate friends. While theT
all rejoiced together her spirits grew
high, and jumping down with the asilitv
Of ballet-dancer she danced and skippod
along the boulevard till policeman tSiod
to arrest her, only to let her on with =,
caution. They resumed their tdumphaI
march, she still skipping along. Tbs:
crowds grew larger and more spirited -
the afternoon wore ON, and the pictures
piling In faster and faster, we, fear:
ing our red-feathered friend would agains'
escape and rush at US in the gathsFing
gloom, regretfully headed our WAY!
home, after very weird day, but thof~,
oughly ENJOYABLE" e g
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PERSONAL,
w. H. s.

Lord Randolph Churchill makes his
presence felt on the turf as he does in Parlia-
ment. He is nothing If not prominent.
Two Russian grand dukes and any
number of New York earls and countesses will
attend the English royal Jubilee in force.
Miss Evelyn Ames, daughter of the
governor Of Massachusetts,, has studied under
Rubenstein and is said to be very fine pianist.
Secretary Fairchild is short and stout.
He is an outdoor man in his tastes, having
been for years member OF athletic clubs of
all kinds.
The Queen of Sweden has undergone
an operation at Stockholm for cancer. but the
chances of her ultimate recovery are very
doubtful.
Secretary Endicott has the reputation
Of being. next to the great Secretary Stanton,
the most pugnacious secretary the department
has had. He loves fight.
Governor Church, of Dakota, did a
funny thing lately. He appointed his hired
man veterinary surgeon of the Territory. The
man. however, knows his business.
DR.. Mary Walker has found her mis-.
sion at last. She has been lecturing on woman's
AA8uso AAA &hAAeuCiPuAns anu Aucu utc oeAO W
turn gray at the mention OF her name.
6ancho Panza would have enjoyed the
society of Mr.. Henry Russell, of Royal Oak.
Mich. Mr.. Russell recently slept for more than
twenty days. This beats the best police record
Miss Marie Engel, Chicago girl, Il
Colonel Naple6ons latest protRgee. When TIE
London daA4es hsar her vaxbls they eIclaim
vith o. 49, Slark. hsar = Hassl slngl.
NY ~ ss.sa.ss 8 - 2.!.!.l -
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oughfare is the resort of female law
breakers by the thousand. Here are some of
those noisome resorts, now being rapidly
stamped out by the police, where sin takes
on the most audacious forms, such as cannot
be here (and ought not to be auywhere) de-
scribed.
But it would take many such articles as
this to fully describe what goes on in the
Bowery. There are the pretty waiter girl,
concert saloons, the five-cent restaurants,
the mock auction stores, the famous and rep
utable jewelry store where duplicate we'd
ding gifts are bought and sold, the pawn
brokers' shops and those veritable museums
the stores where unredeemed pledges from
the pawnshops are collected and sold. There
are the gambling dens, the synagogues, the
cheap hat and clothing stores where goods
seem almost to be given away. Finally
there is the palatial Mission House where
the Rev. Mr.. Dooley battles with sin and
vice and vanquishes great deal Of it amid
the most interesting experiences.
The Bowery is fit and ample subject
for book. It never closes or sleeps. 1t
is as close to being a perpetual motion ma
chine as anything artificial can be.
, JULIAN RALPH.
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IN LIGHTER VEIN.
RELATING TIER EXPERIENCE.

RELATING Their ExPERIENCE.
II had big surprise yesterday" observed
q Kalamazoo man to friend.
''How so?' asked the latter.
"Why, my wife called me darling"
''You don't say! Well, was surprised
myself last week. My wife came near call
ing me honey"
''What did she sayr'
'.She said was an old humbug."
"How was that near calling you honey ?"
Doesn't bee make honeyr,
''Yes, but what has q bee to do with It p
"And isn't q bee a hum bug?'' Il
Eyes, it's my treat"
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more 80 than Broadway.
It is street of theatres, great beer gardens,
hotels, lodging-houses and museums. The
east side of New York, of which the Bowery
is the gateway, could not begin to support
it. AL of New York city could not sup
port it.
New Workers never lose their interest in
this queer section Of the city. Men and
women, boys and girls, Of every class, make
periodical visits there, particularly in the
evenings, but not to spend money and sell
dom to enter any of the houses. The hustle
and din of railroads overhead and on the
ground, and the sweeping torrents of human
ity upon the sidewalks, are sources of never
ending interest, even to our citizens. Even
q police captain, John McCullogh, of the fa-
nous Sixth precinct, told me the other day
that he liked to stand in front of the Atlantic
Garden and watch the throng.
ut would pay you," he said, ito stand
from ten o'clock at night until two in the
morning, if you have the patience, just to see
the people. Now you see a man you know
to be worth 81 ,000, 900 walking apparently
aimlessly along; he is followed by notori-
Gus burglar, and he by well-known clergy
man. Tramps and crooks and courtesans
and undoubted ladies of more than comfort
able circumstances elbow one another in
sudden thickening Of the crowd. There is
nothing like that crowd anywhere else in
the city,
Suppose, instead Of standing still, that the
reader takes rapid walk with me along this
highway Of Bedlam. A noisy band causes
you to turn your head and you see museum
literally hidden behind great canvas paint
ings of serpents, fat women, monstrosities
and jugglers. Behind these paintings the
band is concealed, and under them is the
doorway in which man with the loudest.
voice you ever heard is bidding the crowd to
walk right in; only dime" Don't do it
unless you have a city man with you, for
this is trap for the unwary. The main
profits of that establishment are gotten by
fleeing strangers, and the manner in
which the swindling is done IL so auda-
cious that no one could guard against it ex-
cept by having nothing whatever to do with
the place. For instance, you are asked to
allow phrenologist to feel your head or you
are invited TO step into little box and have
your fortune told. When you enter you are
led to believe that the operation is to cost
nothing, but just as you are about to come
away little board in one of the walls is
skillfully turned and sign is displayed an
nouncing: Fee Toy examination, o." The
rascals cannot force you to pay this, but
they tell their victims they will club them or
thrash them II they don't pay, and nine
greenhorns In ten pay gladly to get out into
the welcome air Of the street again. You
will zee other museums as you stroll up the
street; something like half dozen Of them.
Unless you are New Yorker you cannot
tell which are honest and which are traps.
Their signs are very ingenious and interest
Ing just now. One h holding : benuty show.
II apother the famous What's p ye long
w Ralaup, = smploye ~ IN 4 hoxing
Isss s s'ss =
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JINxY CHOOSES A PROFESSION.

Jimmy, what do you intend to do when
you grow to be . manP" asked Fangle Of his
only son and heir.
''rm going to write those funny items for
the paper" replied Johnny.
"Indeedl Then I suppose I'll soon have
to send you to teacher Of fun-ography."
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-12
The Masney Plant.

The maguey plant Of MEXICO has many uses.
II 10 eaten cut up and preserved like melon
rinds. Its long tough hber ID very extern
siyely used in making ropes and 'cordage
The end Of each leaf Terminates In hard,
sharp black thorn: Break Of this thorn
yon have capital needle and thread for
coarse sewing. This the muleteen use to
mend their saddles and broken harness
straps. Thejuice ofthe plant fermented ID the
famous pulque. The pulque 4 best In these
high regions. ltisa yiScous milk-white fluid,
BE- emost agreeable drink fit TASTED good. !"
In fhct II tastes, when IL has been few days
fermented, like . mixture Of buttermilk and
sour cider. But many strangers become
very fond Of 1t, The older Il grows the
more intoxicating II Il.
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A. BEDLAM STREET.
GLrMpsEs INTO THE CURIOUS LrFH
OF THE BOwERY.

A Famous Street Of New York That IL
Unlike Any Other Thoroushfare in the
world-Its Many Tricks, Occupations,
Disguises and Varieties Of Population.
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semi-spherical tin-box over his head 80
that no one in the seats can see him.
Every word the actors are to speak is
in book before him, and he keeps turning
over the pages as they speak their parts.
Although he cannot be seen he can be heard
very plainly whenever he tells forgetful
actor what to say next, an occurrence more
common in German theatre than in one of
our play-houses.
Next door is the Atlantic Garden. It really
seems as ii every one must know all about
it, it is so old, SO constantly crowded with
strangers and so famous. In Germany you
find pictures of it side by side with pictures
Of the Brooklyn Bridge and Niagara Falls.
And yet it is simply big beer garden, or
more truly a big hall, for place becomes "a
garden" among the Germans merely from
having few evergreen trees in it stuck in
green boxes. This garden" is a block long
and about 100 feet wide and has vaulted
roof couple of hundred tables. thousand
chairs, a gallery and little platform for the
musicians. In the daytime, when the or
chestra is idle, the music is supplied by a
great barrel organ. The orchestra plays in
the afternoons and evenings and consists of
a troupe of young women from Vienna
whose constant practice results in very pleas
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AT THE ROSEBUD BALL.

"Miss Northcote- Briggs Is . charming
girl" observed Cholmondely Jones enthusi.
astically; 'such lovely hair and eyes, and
such splendid fgurew
Eyes," replied Plantaganet Simpson, ''Ive
heard it 10 $500, 900 in her own right"
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Thous nds and thousands of pictures
il seemed as If every cart in Paris was up
to the entrance, while cab on cab came
piling in, and artists drove up in wagons
taking their pictures, which they had, ~
it were, brought up by hand and In
through the gateway, through the jeering
crowd of students who were massed at
the entrance, and who would pass their
.vociferous criticisms on every entire,
Kissing when they did not approve, jok-
ing rather roughly when they found the
picture or artist funny, and crying
Bravop when they were pleased.
When the pictures only bored them
they sang songs, with hundred voices
at least. don't think l shall enjoy the
first day of the salon-even If my pic
ture get in. We expected every moment
to see drive up our modest aspirations,
and run the gauntlet of the entire Latin
Quarter, but ours must have gotten there
us appeared, such as Benjamin Constants
'Theodora,' and some terrible ones In
Cropsey's manner. How the students
did howl when an immense canvas of
an impossible Coronet went in, and
little later when portrait ap-l
peared of an enormous light - the
insides, bright red, of COW. The
lights of another COW and nothing
more, immense lights one after an
other went in, till one would have
thought it was butcher shop. The
crowd surged and howled worse than .
political meeting in hot political CAM
paign, and when one more extraordinary
than the others appeared, a rortrait of
Lady Godiva, the wild students just
leaped over the ,rNM -
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BILE unless you can keep glass full on the ta-
BILE before you. The number of beer glasses
in use in this place is pyodigous. You will
sometimes see waiter carrying twenty or
even twenty-five at one time, andif you look
behind the different bars you will see more
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sHIPflr's FAILING.

Little snippit Il always airing his won.
derful requirements, isn't he, 6taggers9"
''Yes, Scroggs; he reminds me Of man
with chronic cold"
''Why?"
because he is always prowing his knows"
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Il supposed to drink several quarts of oil Q
day TO keep the Aarne burning. In genuine,
honest Bowery museum you will see some
interesting curiosities and short stage per
formance every hour, the price of admission
being only ten cents. As rule, intelligent
citizens do not go to any Of these places be-
cause the curiosities are usually clumsy in
ventions, and not even for the small admis-
sion fee does one get fair return for the in
vestment.
As we walk along we come to the Thalia
Theatre and the Atlantic Garden. The one
was famous all over the world for half q
century as the Bowery Theatre; the Other
is now as well-known by name in Berlin as
in Chicago or San Francisco. The ancient
theatre is bright and handsome inside and
is crowded every night by Germans of re
spectacle character who see there the besl
German plays by excellent German actors
About the only important nov =.
city to an American in this ANN,
theatre is round object in the N&
front of the stage close to the xMmW
foothghts. It looks like half WNNlg.lry
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{s Ianent 20 jersey landlord -Whers
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NO IxPRoyEMENrs.

Thompson. what do You think Of tho
new departure In uociety?''
Nude deparsursl Simply horrible, BusRsi
No Improvement st all over the old.p
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genuineness and honesty in its vast bucket
of fhumbug. The goods in most of the stores
are fraudulent, the food and drinks are often
fraudulent, the hotels and lodging-house
frequently vicious resorts, the museums are
sometimes traps for greenhorns.
1t is aquestion whether any street in the
world compares with the Bowery. Travel
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fraudu lent
street, given
toswindling
in as many
guises as are
known to
man. Big,
and broad,
and long,,
and busy as
IL ia. there
are not ma
nv drops of
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'Gle1chens'' and "Lelnlngens' to gorge,
"Saxe Weimars," too, the ''Strelitz' crew,
And our hero, Cousin George.
In long article Demos views the
events of the Queens reign, pointing out
that during this reign which court poets
designate as peaceful there have been
twelve wars costing e720, ,OOO, 900, and
adding the cost of army expenditures In
the same time the total cost of this reign
Of ''psace" has been e18, 185, ,O0O, 900. The
condition OF the people during that fifty
years 10 also described, and It 10 declared
that at this moment there is larger
amount Of misery In the kingdom than
ever before. Ireland, Wales and the
Highlands Of Scotland are In state of
semi-revolt, and the bitter cry of the
poor % heard In al Of the larger towns
and In the agricultural districts. Armies
OF unemployed persons parade the
streets, and the round Of life for the
working classes 10 monotonous, hopeless,
despairing. Meanwhile the Queen 10
paid q, ,00O, 900 every year by the nation,
and fifteen other royal personages re-
ceive over one million and half more
from the public treasury. The total
amount paid for the support of royalty
during the Queen's reign, exclusive
Of various fees and gifts Of residences,
has been o1l1,OcO,0O0, The way In
which the poor have to live 10
contrasted with the extrsvagsnce Of the
Queens household. For instance, there
d Z President Of the Board Of Green
Cloth who r paid 100 : yea! and his
impoZtant Duty Il p heoak BIZ Nhite
~. g g E ~ - go ssss, y. ~ 2e!cs x7ss :
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-19
What True Merit VIII nn.

The unprecedented sale Of BoscLccs
GcrmdH Syrup within few years, has as
tonished the world. 1t is without doubt
the safest and best remedy ever discover
ed for the speedy and chcctual cure of
Coughs. Colds and the scverest Lung
troubles. 1t acts ON an entirely different
principle from the usual prescriptions
given by Physicians, as it does not drv
up Il Cough and leave the disease still in
the system, but on the contrary removes
the cansc Of the trouble, heals the parts
affected and leaves them in a purely
healthy condition. 4 bottle kept in the
house for use when the diseases make
their appearance, will save doctors bills
and long spell Of serious illness. 4
trial will convince you of these Glcts. 1t
is positively sold by all druggists and
general dealers in the land. Price, -
cts, large bottles